Mets ace Matt Harvey is battling blisters on his pitching hand. It may cause the Mets to skip his next start, reports the New York Post. This could also impact his availability for the All-Star Game, although which way it cuts is hard to say.

He was scheduled to pitch on Sunday, which would have limited him to one inning of All-Star Game duty. If the blisters are fixed by the skipped start, however, he could then pitch more in the All-Star Game than he otherwise would have. On the other hand, the blisters may be enough to knock him out of the All-Star Game entirely. That plus a skipped start would give him a nice break, actually. And in a season where the Mets aren’t competing for anything meaningful, why not rest your future a bit more?

All-Star opportunity or one of the many All-Star injuries — real or otherwise — we’ll see this week? Guess we’ll know eventually.

Hey, remember when the team said it was concerned with how many pitches and innings he was throwing and how they were going to limit them?

hittfamily - Jul 9, 2013 at 10:16 AM

I doubt this affects his all star game status. Blisters aren’t normally formed on the pads of the fingers, but rather on the sides. Without knowing his pitch repetoire, I’d bet he throws either a knuckle curve, spike curve, splitter, or circle change. Those pitches can cause blisters. Fastballs don’t. In front of the home crowd, they’ll send him out just throwing fastballs, before they sideline him. If they are on the pads however, that hurts like hell, and he won’t throw til they are healed.

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